Reply to Anyone’s else’s parents always commenting on how you spend your money?

Forum Index » Family Relationships

Reply to "Anyone’s else’s parents always commenting on how you spend your money?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I have this problem but from a different perspective. My parents are wealthy and while I was not personally spoiled, I took for granted that we always had a nice new house, boat, swimming pool and so on. It happens that my own family is just middle class. My husband and I work in healthcare. We are careful with our money and live in a small old house with no luxuries. However we choose to spend money on certain things they find foolish (private school for our kids being the big one). They are appalled that we would spend money on something we could get for free. We get a LOT of unsolicited financial advice and they also offer to give us money, which we don't take because we know strings would be attached. I usually say something along the lines of "would you like to see our bank statements? 401k? Can I give you my Fidelity password? Maybe that would make you feel better to go over our accounts. " And we all laugh together until the next time they bring it up. Just promise them that you're taking care of everyone. It comes from a place of anxiety. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics